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2009 A gun battle between U.S. agents and suspected people smugglers shuts down San Ysidro U.S. Mexico border crossing
2007 Paul Gillmor, dies in Arlington, Virginia, of head and neck trauma from falling down stairs, at 68 2005 New York City union members shut down subway and bus services for 3 days 2003 After an Ohio FirstEnergy power plants shut down unexpectedly, a power outtage occurs for over ten hours all over northeastern North America 1999 Last upside down date until January 1, 6000 1997 Belgian amusement park riders were stuck upside down for 90 minutes 1997 Supreme Court strikes down Internet indecency law 1997 Carole Carr, singer and actress, Down Among the Z Men, dies at 68 1995 Amendment to make it illegal to physically desecrate the flag turned down by senate 63-36 (need 2/3 vote) 1994 Last Dutch electro-magnetic telephone exchange shuts down 1994 American Eagle ATR-72 crash down at Gary, Indiana: 68 killed 1994 Royal Air Maroc ATR-42 crash down at Agadir, 44 killed 1994 Antonov-12 crash down at Boda, East-Siberia, 47 killed 1994 U.S. F-15 accidentally shoots 2 U.S. helicopters down over Iraq, 26 die 1994 Agatha Uwilingiyimana, Prime Minister of Rwanda (first female prime minister in Africa), assassinated, the day after President Habyarimana's plane was shot down, killing him and the president of Burundi 1994 Jerome Lejeune, French geneticist (Syndrome of Down), dies at 67 1994 Barcelona opera theater "Gran Teatro del Liceo" burns down 1994 35-foot-tall Chief Wahoo, trademark of Indians on top of Stadium since 1962, is taken down, to be moved to Jacob's Field 1992 Toronto down 6-1 in 7th beats A's 7-6 in 11th in AL playoff 1992 Sandy Dennis, actress (Up the Down Staircase), dies of cancer at 54 1992 Europe breaks down trade barriers 1991 Terry Norris knocks down Sugar Ray Leonard twice and beats him 1991 U.S. Patriot missiles begins shooting down Iraqi missiles 1991 Eastern Airlines shuts down operation 1991 Operation Desert Storm: 1st U.S. pilot shot down (Jeffrey Zahn) 1990 Faye Vincent turns down White Sox bid to reinstate Minnie Minoso, 68, 1990 George Steinbrenner steps down as New York Yankee owner 1990 Wrecking cranes began tearing down Berlin Wall at Brandenburg Gate 1990 On a BBC taped interview, rock star Stevie Nicks breaks down, saying that she will never have children and no man can stand her for long 1990 Supreme Court strikes down Dallas' ordinance imposing strict zoning on sexually oriented businesses 1989 George Harrison releases "Cheer Down" and "Poor Little Girl" 1989 Dow Jones down 190.58 points 1989 NASA closes down tracking stations in Hawaii and Ascension 1989 Iljushin-62 crashes down on residential area of Havana, 170 die 1989 NASA closes down tracking stations in Santiago, Chile and Guam 1989 U.S. F-14s shoot down 2 Libyan jet fighters over Mediterranean 1988 U.S. Navy shoots down Iranian civilian jetliner over Gulf, kills 290 1988 3-judge panel of 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco strikes down Army's ban on homosexuals (later overturned by appeal) 1988 Dow Jones down 140.58 points 1987 On Wall Street, after 5 consecutive gains, Dow Jones down 50.56 1987 Dow Jones down 156.83 points 1987 "Black Monday"-Dow Jones down 508.32, 4 times previous record 1987 In Midland, Texas 1 -year-old Jessica McClure falls 22' (7m) down a well 1986 U.S. government closes down due to budget problems 1986 Sudan rebels shoot a Fokker's F-27 down, 57 killed 1986 Supreme Court struck down Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction law 1985 Supreme Court strikes down Alabama "moment of silence" law 1984 U.S. government closes down due to budget problems 1984 Cleveland Indians down 0-10 to Minnesota Twins, win 11-10 1984 U.S. missile shot down an incoming missile in space for 1st time 1984 Dave Kingman's fly ball never comes down (stuck in Metrodome ceiling) 1984 Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau announced he is stepping down 1983 Richard Baker, Zen teacher, steps down from abbotship of San Francisco Zen Center 1983 Federal government shut down 1983 U.S. House of Representatives votes, 416 to 0, in favor of a resolution condemning Russia for shooting down a Korean jetliner 1983 U.S.S.R. vetoes United Nations resolution deploring its shooting down of Korean plane 1983 U.S.S.R. admits to shooting down KAL 007 on 9/2 1983 Korean Boeing 747 strays into Siberia and is shot down by a Soviet jet 1983 Supreme Court struck down state and local restrictions on abortion 1983 "Down Under" by Men At Work hit #1 on U.K. pop chart 1982 SF's cable cars made a final run before closing down for 20-month 1982 Rolling Stone Keith Richard's house burns down 1982 Equal Rights Amendment goes down to defeat 1981 2 U.S. Navy F-14 jet fighters shoot down 2 Soviet-built Libyan SU-22 1981 2 climbers fall 550 m down cliff near Angel Falls, Venezuela 1981 New York City mayor Koch turns down a $7,500 offer to perform comedy 1980 Elevator in Vaal Reef South Africa gold mine crash 1900m down (23 die) 1979 Charlie Daniels Band releases "Devil Went Down to Georgia" 1979 Supreme Court strikes down (6-3) Pennsylvania law requiring doctors performing an abortion to try to preserve lives of potentially viable fetuses 1978 Josh Hartnett, born in St. Paul, Minnesota, film producer, actor, movies include 'Black Hawk Down', 'Pearl Harbor', People magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People 2002 1978 Soyuz 30 spacecraft touches down in Soviet Kazakhstan 1978 Down 9-7 in 10th with 2 outs, Yankees Paul Blair hits a 3 run home run 1978 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) strikes down 148 year policy of excluding black men from priesthood 1978 Korean Airlines flight 007 shot down by Soviets in Russian airspace 1977 North Korea shoots down U.S. helicopter, killing 3 1975 Apple records closes down 1973 Israel shoots down 13 Syrian MIG-21s 1973 45th Academy Awards - "Godfather," Marlon Brando and Liza Minnelli win Marlon Brando turns down Oscar for best actor in support of Indians 1973 Israeli fighters shoot Libyan aircraft down, killing 108 1972 Official Beatles Fan Club, closes down 1971 Bill Graham closes down Fillmore and Fillmore East 1971 Madame Spivy [LeVoe], actress (All Fall Down), dies at 64 1970 Janis Joplin, rock singer (Down on Me), dies of a drug overdose at 27 1970 Yuchiro Miura of Japan skies down Mount Everest 1970 Melanie releases "Lay Down" 1970 NFL realigns into 3 divisions (down from 4) 1969 Supreme Court strikes down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material 1968 Haiti closes down shortwave station 4VEH for 40 days 1967 Salli Richardson, born in Chicago, Illinois, television, film, actress, 'Posse', 'A Low Down Dirty Shame', and 'Antwone Fisher', appeared in 2007 film, 'I Am Legend' 1967 Beatles turn down $1 million New York concert offer by Sid Berstein 1967 Shortwave broadcaster Radio New York Worldwide's transmitter burns down 1966 12 day transit worker strike shuts down New York City subway 1965 Borman and Lovell Splash down in Atlantic ends 2 week Gemini VII mission 1965 Clara Bow, U.S. actress, (Down to the Sea in Ships, Wings), dies at 60 1965 Chris Burke, actor with down syndrome, Corky-Life Goes On 1965 Braves offer Milwaukee $500,000 to terminate their lease a year earlier, the proposal is turned down 1964 U.S. reconnaissance plane shot down over East Germany 1963 C and A Building in Amsterdam burns down 1962 Rudolph Anderson, U-2 pilot, shot down over Cuba 1962 Dodgers protest wetting down of Candlestick to slow Maury Wills down 1961 Museum of Modern Art hangs Matisse's Le Bateau upside down for 47 days 1961 U.S. Supreme Court struck down a provision in Md's constitution requiring state office holders to believe in God 1960 Wilt Chamberlain pulls down 55 rebounds in a game (NBA record) 1960 Bob Scheffing signs to manage Tigers after Casey Stengel turns it down 1960 U.S.S.R. shoots down a U.S. aircraft over Barents sea 1960 U.S.S.R. shoots down U.S. RB-47 reconnaissance plane 1960 Russia shoots down Francis Gary Powers in a U-2 spy plane 1959 Richard Drummie, rocker, Go West-Call Me, Don't Look Down 1958 Dodgers erect 42-foot screen in left field at LA Coliseum to cut down on home runs, since it is only 250 feet down the line 1956 Hungarian revolt put down 1956 Supreme Court strikes down segregation of races on public buses 1956 Chris Foreman, guitarist, Madness-Burning Down the House 1955 Peter Cox, rocker, Go West-Call Me, Don't Look Down 1955 Branch Rickey steps down as General Manager of the Pirates 1955 2 Egyptian fighters shot down over Israel 1955 Carmen Miranda, singer and actress (Down Argentine Way), dies at 42 1955 Bulgaria shoots down a plane heading for Israel (58 die) 1955 Israeli passenger plane shot down above Bulgaria, 58 die 1955 U.S. air patrol plane shot down above Bering sea 1955 Mark Herndon, Springfield, Massachusetts, country drummer, Alabama-Take Me Down 1954 U.S. spy plane shot down North of Japan 1954 Major league owners vote down sale of A's to a Philadelphia syndicate 1954 U.S. plane shot down above Siberia 1954 Boscombe Down 1st flight of supersonic P-1 Lightning 1954 Lesley-Anne Down, born in London, actress, A Little Night Music, Moonraker 1953 U.S. bombers shot down at north of Wladiwostok 1953 Cluster of 6 tornadoes touch down in Flint Michigan killing 113 1953 Baseball star/pilot Ted Williams uninjured as plane shot down in Korea 1952 Soviet Fighters shoot Swedish Catalina reconnaissance flight down 1952 Soviet fighters shoot Swedish Dakota down over East Sea, kills 8 1952 David Byrne, guitarist and vocalist, Talking Heads-Burning Down the House 1951 Superheated gases roll down Mount Catarman (Philippines), kills 500 1951 "Cloud of Death" rolls down Mount Lamington, New Guinea kills 3-5,000 1950 Vic Toweel knocks down Danny O'Sullivan 14 times in a title fight 1950 Monasteries shut down in Hungary 1950 U.S. B-29 bomber shot down above Latvia 1949 AL votes down proposal to revive spitball 1949 British warship HMS Amethyst escape down Yangtze River, having been refused a safe passage by Chinese Communists after 3-month standoff 1949 Francis Rossi, born in England, guitarist and vocalist, Status Quo-Down Down 1949 Alan Lancaster, bassist, Status Quo-Down Down, On the Level 1945 Bob Seger, Dearborn, Michigan, folk singer, Silver Bullet Band-Shake Down 1944 U.S. Captain David Mccampbell shoots down 9-11 Japanese planes in Gulf of Leyte 1944 Uprising at Auschwitz, Jews burn down crematoriums 1944 15,000 American troops liberating Paris march down Champs Elysees 1944 Oriole Park (minor league baseball stadium) burns down in Baltimore 1944 Battle of Philippines Sea, 300 Japanese aircraft shot down 1944 1st British gliders touched down on French soil for D-Day 1944 1st British gliders touches down on French soil for D-Day 1944 General George Norman Johnson, U.S. singer, Down at the Beach Club 1944 1st B-29 attacked by Japanese fighters, one fighter shot down 1944 John Stax, rocker, Pretty Things-Don't Bring Me Down 1944 Heinrich zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, German major/pilot, shot down 1943 P-47D Thunderbolt shot down above North-Holland 1943 Otto Skorzeny's Heinkel-111 shot down at Sardinia 1943 Lt Charles Hall, becomes 1st black pilot to shoot down Nazi plane 1943 Federal troops put down racial riot in Detroit 30 dead 1943 Eddie McGrady, born in County Down, Northern Ireland, born Eddie Kevin McGrady, Member of Parliament for South Down, founding member of the Social Democratic and Labor Party 1943 Germany shoots down a civilian flight from Lisbon to London, all die 1943 Leslie Howard, actor (Romeo and Juliet), Nazis shot down his plane at 50 1943 U-441 shoots Sunderland seaplane down over Gulf of Biskaje 1943 Fantastic Johnny Corley, U.S. singer, Boogaloo down Broadway 1943 RAF shoots down 14 German transport planes over Mediterranean Sea 1943 1st Spitfire in action above Darwin, Australia, Mu Ki-46 shot down 1943 German under officers shot down in Haarlem, Netherlands 1943 Janis Joplin, Port Arthur, Texas, bluesy rock singer, Down on Me 1942 Battle of Santa Cruz: USS SD shoots down a record 32 enemy planes 1942 New York Giants beat Washington Redskins 14-7 without making a 1st down 1942 Adolf Opalka, Czechoslovakian resistance fighter, shot down 1942 Billy Joe Royal, born in Valdosta, Georgia, country singer, Down in the Boondocks 1942 Lt. E. H. O'Hare single-handedly shoots down 5 Japanese heavy bombers 1941 1st Messerschmidt 109F shot down above England 1940 12 German aircraft shot down above England 1940 17 German aircrafts shot down above England 1940 47 German aircrafts shot down above England 1940 55 German aircraft shot down above England 1940 19 German aircrafts shot down above England 1940 4 teens, following their dog down a hole near Lascaux France discover 17,000-year-old drawings now known as Lascaux Cave Paintings 1940 28 German aircraft shot down above England 1940 71 German aircrafts shot down above England 1940 45 German aircrafts shot down over England 1940 38 German aircrafts shot down above England 1940 31 German aircraft shot down over England 1939 Eddie Kendricks, Alabama, rocker, Temptations-My Girl, Boogie Down 1939 Spitfire shoots German Heinkel-111 down above Scotland 1939 Dutch hunter shoots English bombers down 1937 Australia snatch series against England 3-2 after being 2-0 down 1936 Charlie Daniels, born in Wilmington, North Carolina, singer, Devil Went Down to Georgia 1936 Babe Ruth turns down Reds to make a comeback as a player 1935 Carl Austin Weiss, murderer of Senator Huey Long, shot down 1934 U.S. Court of Appeals upheld lower court ruling striking down government's attempt to ban controversial James Joyce novel "Ulysses" 1933 National Industrial Recovery Act becomes law, later struck down 1932 Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, 1st joint movie (Flying Down to Rio) 1932 Christy Brown, born in Dublin, novelist, My Left Foot, Down All the Days 1929 "Black Thursday," start of stock market crash, Dow Jones down 12.8% 1929 WOWO-AM, Indiana returns to air, 1 day after transmitter burns down 1929 AM radio station WOWO, Indiana's transmitter burns down 1928 Galt MacDermot, Montreal Canada, composer, Letting Down My Hair 1928 John McGraw is knocked down by a taxicab and suffers a broken leg 1928 Carole Carr, singer and actress, Down Among the Z Men 1925 Pierre de Coubertin steps down as chairman of International Olympic Committee 1925 John Barrington Wain, born in England, novelist and poet, Hurry on Down 1923 Stresemann's SPD-ministers in Germany, step down 1923 Harry Houdini frees himself from a straight jacket while suspended upside down, 40 feet (12 m) above ground in New York City 1921 Harry Secombe, Swansea, Wales, actor, Down Among the "Z" Men 1919 Robert Lowry, born in Ireland, judge, Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, Baron Lowry of Crossgar in the County of Down 1918 "Red Baron", Manfred von Richtofen, shot down in WW I at 25 1918 Douglas Campbell is 1st U.S. ace pilot (shooting down 5th German plane) 1918 S. Potter becomes 1st U.S. pilot to shoot down a German seaplane 1918 1st U.S. pilot to down an enemy airplane, Stephen W. Thompson 1918 NHL Montreal Wanderers disband after Westmount arena burns down 1917 Supreme Court decision (Buchanan vs. Warley) strikes down Lousiville Kentucky ordiance requiring blacks and whites to live in separate areas 1917 French pilot Georges Guynemer shoots down 54th German aircraft 1916 U.S. pilot William Thaw shoots down a German Fokker 1916 U.S. pilot Kiffin Rockwell shoots down German aircraft 1916 NL votes down a proposal by Giants, Braves, and Cubs to increase club player limit from 21 to 22 (The Reds want to decrease to 20) 1916 NL votes down Charlie Ebbets proposal to limit 25 cents seats 1916 Canada's original Parliament buildings, in Ottawa, burns down 1915 Willy Dixon, blues artist, Mellow Down Easy 1914 German army shoots Belgian priests/burns down village of Battice 1914 Alastair Down, CEO, Burmah Oil 1914 Ruth White, born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, actress, Up the Down Staircase 1914 Sonny Boy Williamson, John Lee, blues musician, Down and Out Blues 1913 Carmen Miranda, singer and actress, 4 Jills in a Jeep, Down Argentine Way 1911 Will Rogers, Jr., New York, actor, Down to Earth 1910 U.S. supported opposition brings down Madriz in Nicaragua 1907 Romanian Army puts down Moldavian farmers' revolt 1905 Clara Bow, Brooklyn, actress, Wings, Down to the Sea in Ships 1904 Netherlands and Portugal lay down bounderies splitting Timor 1903 President T Roosevelt shuts down post office in Indianola Miss, for refusing to accept its appointed postmistress because she was black 1900 U.S. troops arrive in Beijing, help put down Boxer Rebellion 1894 Congress passes Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act, which includes a graduated income tax later struck down by the Supreme Court 1892 Russia closes down Yeshiva of Volozhin 1890 Ernst Deutsch, Dorian, Prague Czechoslovakia, actor, Moon is Down, 3rd Man 1882 Creighton Hale, Cork Ireland, actor, Gorilla Man, Way Down East 1879 Edward Rigby, England, actor, Star Look Down, Young and Innocent 1876 Historic Elm at Boston blown down 1872 Ralph Vaughan Williams, born in Down Ampney, England, composer, Hugh the Drover 1871 Paris communards revolt put down 1869 1st voyage down Colorado River 1867 Queen Victoria and Napoleon III turn down plans for a channel tunnel 1865 P. T. Barnum's museum burns down 1865 Columbia South Carolina burns down during Civil War 1861 Revolt of Russian student shuts down university of Petersburg 1861 Col Robert E. Lee turns down offer to command Union armies 1861 Steeple of Chichester Cathedral blown down during a storm 1814 British forces captured Washington, D.C., and burned down many landmarks 1808 Simon Fraser completes his trip down Fraser R, BC, lands at Musqueam 1795 Pinckney's Treaty between Spain and U.S. is signed, establishing southern boundary of U.S. and giving Americans right to send goods down Mississippi 1703 Eglon van de Down, still-life painter, dies 1696 English / Welsh nobles lay down Oath of Assn 1648 Spanish troops/feudal barons strike down people's uprising in Naples 1643 Battle at Roundway Down: Royalists beat parliamentary armies 1613 Shakespeare's Globe Theater burns down 1600 Henry IV of France invades Savoy after negotiations break down over Saluzzo, controlled by Savoy since 1588 235 Bishop of Rome Pontianus steps down 70 Walls of upper city of Jerusalem battered down by Romans |
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